Improved anchor-clutch



UNITED STATES -PATENT GEFICE.'

HENRY FLEMING, or CHICAGO, iLLiNois;

IMPaovED ANCHOR-CLUTCH.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 44,621, dated October 11, 186,4.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that-l, HENRY FLEMING, of Chicago, in the county o-Uook and .Stateof Illini is, have invented/ziu new and useful Anchor-Clutoh and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact. description of the saine,referenoe beinghad to the accon1- p: nying drawings and letters of reference marked .thereon.-nrhicli i'orima part of this speciication, and in which- Figurel represents a side elevation of my invention, showingthe wayin which it, clutches the anchor-chain. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional viewgand Fig. 3 an end View.

The nature of iny invention consists in so constructing an anchor-grapple that it can be readily attached to the anchor-ohain to hold (he anchor, and by asligllt blow can be niade to let go of the chain when it is desired io cast anchor.

i 'loenable those skilled in the art to inanufacture and use my invention, 1 will proceed to describe the saine with partieulariry.

The same letters of reference refer to the corresponding parts in the dii'erentligures.

A represen-ts the' body ofthe grapple, which is made with a large'groove. on one side, extendingnearly its Whole length. `B is a slide which slidesin, said groove and is held in said groove by thevgcross-pieee C. I) are the prongs to the clutch, and turn on the pin E. 1

onto the anchoieohaixnas in FigLl, and the,

slide B is'pushed forward so that the end of it shall slide under `the heel of the prongs at H. The pin I is used to k-eep the slide B from sliding back in case (if by accident) anythiigp should hit it.

To let the anchor drop, the piu is removed, and a sudden. blow against the shoulder O causes the slide B to slide from under the heel 'of the prongs'7 when the weight of the anchor causes the prongs of the clutch to lv up in the position shown by the red lines'in'Fig. 1,

F is a hole made iu the elutolrfor the purposeof attaching a oord, so that when the clutch is unfastened from the ohain'and'the chain is' being drawnl 01T', the clutch can-be kept from falling down under the vchain and .being drawn between the chain andwindlass,

: anoliorchain.

When it is desired to hold the anchor by using f the clutcli,tlie prongs 1) are thrown downl clutch, what I ola-iin as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- The bed-piece A, the slide B, and the prongs D, when arranged and operating substantially as and forI the purposes set forth.

HENRY FLEMING.

Witnesses:

LEWIS L GoBURN, W..E. MARKS. 

